youtube.com — Planet of the Arabs is a powerful 9 minute collage of racist stereotyping of Arabs in movies.Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000)12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and the rest of the 900 and so were negative. A montage of Hollywood's relentless dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
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cococookyJan 2, 2008
@RogerStrong When do Aussies get a chance to be the villains. We are crazy and scary as hell...honest.
hostile17Jan 2, 2008
I think I've 'learned' two things from reading these comments.1) Hollywood aren't just racist against Arabs, they're racist against anyone who isn't white.2) The popular majority of Diggers believe the media lies about Arabs.Both of these things are very disappointing. None the less, the video is great so I'm going to digg it up.
the3rdmanJan 3, 2008
"bases that led to 9/11"....you're a f**king IDIOT. We have bases all over the world, by your logic South Koreans and Germans should be attacking us as well. 9/11 happened because of religious nut-jobs that you make excuses for.
the3rdmanJan 5, 2008
...and we are supposed to conduct our foreign policy based on what every religious psycho fringe-group demands? Again, you are a delusional moron.
chillypacmanJan 12, 2008
Thats hardly true, the way they see it the attacks are delibrate, in many ways theya re right. Abu Ghraib is just one prime example, god knows what else happens in Iraq on a day to day basis (especially by Blackwater).Carelessly allowing people to die, it's the same deal, when a suicide bomber kills fifty people he does so with the intention of killing maybe 4 American soldiers, likewise when a bomber drops clusterbombs on a neighbourhood it ends up killing fifty people with maybe 4 enemy combatants.Simply put, the confusion exists on both sides because neither side wants to know it is killing innocent people, by doing so the enemy is fair game and any by standers being killed is just an unfortunate mistake.That doesn't mean there arent people delibrately killing or even torturing innocent people, but they also happen to exist on both sides.
endoccupationJan 12, 2008
amazing editing and a truly enlightening piece. Thank you.
chopcowJan 20, 2008
We should be turning off our television for lots of reasons.